Author: Roddy, Stephen J.
Title: Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, (1998). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, ix,315 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Image of the Literati in Qing Discourse: Literati Identity & the Qing Epistemological Crisis; Discourses of the Literati & the Literati in Discourse; The Intellectual Milieus of Three Novelists; The Deconstruction of Literati Identity in 'Rulin waishi': Scholars, Poets, Painters & Essayists; The Decline of Literati Mores; The Use & Abuse of Ritual; Fictional Reconstructions of Literati Identity: Yesou puysan: A Confucian-Feminist Utopias? The Philological Musings of Jinghua yuan; Conclusion; Appendix: Editions of the Novels.

Keywords: Chinese Literary History, Late Imperial China, Qing Ch'ing Dynasty, Literati Literature, Wu Ching-tzu, Sociology, Criticism Social, Hsia Ching-chu, East Asia